PW2020 YA #17: THESE HOLLOW FATES (Contemporary Fantasy)

THE WICKED DEEP meets RIVERDALE

Still reeling from her dad's mysterious death, Addie Tassle just wants a drama-free senior year. But in her hometown of Sleepy Hollow, the legend of the Headless Horseman resurfaces every Halloween. After a headless rider chases Addie through the cemetery, she realizes there's more lurking in the dark forest than she ever imagined. Following clues embedded in the town's history, Addie races to sever her ties to the Horseman before he kills the people she loves most.

PW2020 YA #18: BORN FROM THE FLAMES (Speculative Thriller)

V FOR VENDETTA meets GIRL, INTERRUPTED

Fates collide when a wayward ambassador’s daughter spars with a scrappy resistance leader in a city haunted by its past. Outpacing bloodthirsty cultists with government ties, the two must unravel legendary secrets before a deadly history repeats.

PW2020 YA #19: ART OF DEATH (#OwnVoices Chinese Fantasy)

As a priestess who reanimates corpses to shepherd them home, Daiyu is accustomed to death. But when death comes for her ailing father, she refuses to let go. Unable to afford treatment, Daiyu accepts a risky job guiding a prince's corpse back from a battlefield—only the prince awakens more alive than dead.

To re-anchor his soul in his body, they must capture energy from malicious ghosts while uncovering the mystery of his untimely death—a truth that threatens not only Daiyu’s father but the fate of the entire kingdom.

PW2020 YA #20: ERNEST BYRD: TYPICAL BOY (Contemporary Rom-Com – Trans #OwnVoices)

Ernest will do anything to prove his true gender to his classmates, and his plan is simple: join his new school’s illustrious Borrow a Boyfriend club, where members rent themselves out to their classmates for dates. After all, the club has “boy” right there in the title. But in order to become a member, Ernest has to show off his boyfriend skills and romance the club’s prickish president. Not a problem. It’s not like they’re going to fall in love or anything.

PW2020 YA #21: SOMEBODY’S HERO (Speculative – Superheroes #OwnVoices Aro/Ace)

After defusing a hostage situation, 18-year-old Burger Bell cashier Phoebe is offered a chance to join a superhero support team, the Sidekicks. Childhood dream fulfillment, plus health insurance to cover her little sister’s life-threatening surgery? Hell yeah. Her trial mission is gathering intel on Shadow, the city’s most notorious supervillain. But instead of an evil mastermind, Phoebe finds a dorky highschool dropout who invites her on a heist that could save her sister’s life.

This is Phoebe’s chance to be a hero—if she doesn’t become the villain first.

YA THE BOYS x WE COULD BE HEROES

PW2020 YA #22: A CLAN OF CASSANDRAS (#OwnVoices Alt. Historical Fantasy/Sapphic Romance)

In 1800s China under foreign occupation, 17-year-old Athena has a set script: survive finishing school, marry well. But when visions of future deaths entangle her in a dangerous conspiracy, she must forsake the life she’s known to save her family and her people.

DESCENDANT OF THE CRANE + Jane Austen

PW2020 YA #23: BOUND BY BLOOD (Gothic Fantasy)

UPROOTED x YA REBECCA

With her family and homeland suffering from a destructive curse, eighteen-year-old Eleanor agrees to marry the fabled Autumn Lord in exchange for a cure. But when he doesn’t keep his end of the bargain, a bloodthirsty creature emerges from the plague. Battling a growing attraction to her mysterious husband, Eleanor must stop the monster before it destroys everything—and everyone—she loves.

PW2020 YA #24: WE RISE LIKE EMPERORS (Fantasy – Chinese #OwnVoices)

THE UNTAMED meets THE CRUEL PRINCE—

Lanyu is the charming, shameless, brothel-hopping son of a powerful family in Tianhua. When the Emperor orders Lanyu’s little sister to become his concubine, Lanyu is terrified she’ll lose her life to treacherous palace politics. Desperate, he arms himself with rouges, dresses as a woman, and takes her place to sabotage the union.

But Lanyu miscalculates and, in disguise, is forced to marry the uptight Third Prince instead, sweeping him into a vicious struggle for the throne wherein his morally righteous spouse is the worst contender. If Lanyu’s to survive, he must outwit the court’s sharpest players and lift his husband onto the throne—without getting caught in his deception.

PW2020 YA #25: PALE NIGHT DARK CITY (Fantasy)

TRUE GRIT x WHERE DREAMS DESCEND 

When Ma takes her own life, she amplifies Cassidy’s rot—the lethal power to decay anything, dead or alive, with her touch. Now Cassidy’s strong enough to kill the two immortal witches who have imprisoned half the Great Plains in eternal day and half in eternal night. Cassidy vows to save her sisters from a life of poverty under the Sun Witch’s reign. But before she can use her power, she must seduce the Moon Witch’s prince into revealing his worst secret—or face her own.

PW2020 YA #26: WE SHALL BE MONSTERS (Fantasy – Fat-positive, Autism Rep #OwnVoices)

STRANGE THE DREAMER meets GIRL, SERPENT, THORN

After centuries trapped as a statue, plus-size Gia wants revenge.

But if she's going to kill the immortal man who doomed her and usurped her sister, she needs to get her hands—and likely her blade—on the handsome autistic boy whose prayers woke her.